iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Kaw! Kaw! I'm a nasty bloodsucking demon-bird that combines the worst aspects of bird, insect and rotting corpse but even tho I am evil I am not on Epstein's list... Kaw! Kaw! Blame it on Biden! Hillary did it! Fake News! Kaw! Kaw!

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Every skin tells a story but very few are likely to write it out for you.

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Odi says he wants us to come back home.

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

"This isn't what it looks like..."

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I'm trying to evolve my inking - explore different methods. Here is another bad day in the bone pile. I haven't been using #hashtags lately and don't know if it makes a difference - social media life seems to have its own rules and I don't know whether or not I should follow them.

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Two heads are better than one.

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Four years ago, in more optimistic times, I painted this one.

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Drawing things that don't exist is a good use of time because it requires you to think about what you think it should look like rather than anything else.

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Still taking a break from media but poking a bit into the digital stream as poof of life. "Ca plane pour moi" is, for me, an antidote for depression... which is good because there are about 100 different versions of the song in near every musical flavor.

drawing of tRump with a snake coming out of his mouth - underneath it says, "Ca plane pour moi."

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Need to take a break from social media in general and the algorithm that governs all online activity in particular. I'll still be around, probably just lurking in the background.

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

My father, James Poag, died in his sleep last night at 3 am. I was fortunate to have recently visited him. I present this image that is often connected with Wolfram Von Eschenbach - a medieval poet whom my father studied and wrote about. He will be missed.

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I've painted a couple of these little guys, each about 10 inches tall. #stefanpoag #illustration #goblin #acrylicpainting #weirdfantasy #noai

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Artwork from 2018. I don't remember why this assortment of freaks and mutants appear to be worshipping at some sort of shrine of technology but that is what the future holdst. #stefanpoag #illustration #postapocalypse #penandink #drawing #noai #traditionalmedia #weirdfantasy

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Painting from 7 or 8 years ago. One of my worst repeating nightmares are dreams of drowning. I imagine something just pulling me under the waves and the agony of feeling my lungs begin to burst and I just want to wake. I think it is about anxiety. #stefanpoag #illustration #baddreams #300words #noai

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Sorcerous energies drained during a long journey across mysterious terrain to the southwest. An hour gained was again lost. Provisions of a poor quality had been unwisely purchased; frequent and desperate stops were needed. I now retreat to my sanctum to rest and recover. #stefanpoag #300words #noai

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The best thing about the new pope is that for one day that orange fucker was almost absent from the front pages. Painting is probably unrelated although a big hand that takes everything probably tells it’s own story. #stefanpoag #illustration #acrylicpainting #fantasyart #weirdfantasy

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, here’s another hell scene drawn by me for Goodman games in 2024. I think I have some sort of unhealthy and unrealistic expectation that the guilty will be punished… It is nice to dream. #stefanpoag #illustration #penandink #noai #fuckai #traditionalmedia #300words

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I’m still out on the road and away from the studio so l have nothing of my own to show but here is a painting I have not seen in person by Giovanni Da Modena from 1410 I think - I would love to go to Bologna and see it in person. #stefanpoag #hell #devils #goodart #noai

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Still trying to stick with drawing - doing some changes in terms of make making, technique and tools. Hope everyone is well - #stefanpoag #illustration #blackandwhite #wacom #drawing #line

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was arrested and deported. He is accused of being a criminal and gang member even though all evidence says he is neither of these things. Evidence against him includes the fact that he liked to wear a Chicago Bulls cap. If they can do this to him, they can do it to you and to me

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

we went downtown and marched and talked to strangers and listened to speeches and held signs today - tiny gestures which felt inadequate... I am so tired and discouraged. Still glad there are a few people out but I'm not convinced yet that we have the will and force necessary to tun the cruel tide.

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

While a group of female celebrities are celebrated for being rich enough to buy a seat on an 11 minute space flight, 47 has announced that his administration will expand deportations to include US citizens whom the administration has determined to be undesirable. is this winning? #300words #notrump

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We met with a financial advisor today to check on our retirement fund. I think he was too optimistic the future. He said several times that medicaid and social security would not be cut because that would be a "political disaster." I don't think he understood that 47 does not care. #stefanpoag #noai

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

You know what? I am suffering a bad case of capitalism. I feel anxiety over a situation I cannot control or comprehend and yet it is somehow going to cost me the money I was told I never deserved? Also: Zorba? #stefanpoag #illustration #goblinbitch #zorba #illustration #witchpleas #300words #notai

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

inking in the studio tonight, trying to find internal peace as I try to do some better inking. I'm currently switching between brushes and pens, making choices in ink. #stefanpoag #illustration #weirdfantasy #inkdrawing #fantasyillustration

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

You were OK with the dissapearings, the firings, the treason, the felonies, the cuts to medicine, research, education and welfare, all that shit was OK to you. But now that it has started to touch your wallet, you suddenly find your principles. #300words #stefanpoag #illustration #worldbuilding #art

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I watched a video in which Elon talked about teleporting Italians to place other than Italy and asking the question if Italy would still be Italy if there were no "Italians" there and then he acted as if this was not nonsense. #stefanpoag #300words #illustration #drawing #notaiart #fuckelon #weirdos

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Bsky.app limits us to 300 characters and I am trying to use every single one. It requires some careful editing - like the careful editing of reality that is going on around us while people explain how ruining the economy is going to be a good thing. #stefanpoag #illustration #art #300words #notaiart

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I just heard an ad for a major ai product that told a lighthearted story of a boy who used ai to deceive the family of a a girl that he fancied that he knew a lot about science when he in fact knew nothing at all and I thought that was so 2025. #stefanpoag #illustration #penandink #weirdfantasy #art

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"The Gifts of the Magi" Woke up this morning to a serious leak in the roof - right above my drawing table! Luckily, nothing important was on the table at the time, but where will I work? #stefanpoag #illustration #penandink #osr #osrrpg #insects #worldbuilding #weirdfantasy #artistlife #studiolife

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Woohoo look at you. Been painting in the studio, trying to catch up on artwork projects. #stefanpoag #illustration #acrylicpainting #weirdfantasy #dccrpg #dccrpgart #goodmangames #monsters

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Pete Hegseth once threw an axe at a target, missed the target and hit a guy from West Point playing a drum. Google the video. Drawing is unrelated. #stefanpoag #illustration #osr #axeman #dipshit #drawing #penandink

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Oh shit, it's that big fucking purple hand again! Lets all think ourselves into better times. #stefanpoag #illustration #weirdfantasy #acrylicpainting #monsters #osr #osrpg #rpg #bighands #fucktrump

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Why can't artists and clients talk more openly about how much art should cost? It's a game of poker - "How much do you charge?" vs "How much do you want to pay?" I end up getting shafted because often the client demands more work than was originally estimated. what is solution? WIP sketch unrelated.

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

In 2024 I imagined I might create a story/comic where Trump is an irresponsible punk rocker who lives in a Potemkin village built by his father where all the other residents are actors paid to put up with his shit. Still might. #stefanpoag #illustration #fucktrump #SOS #pencildrawing #garbage

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It's harder to threaten people with jail when you take away everything on the outside that makes life bearable. I'm just saying: if you keep kicking a dog, you shouldn't be surprised if it bites you. #stefanpoag #illustration #pencil #graypanthers #fucktrump #mydailyaffirmation #weirdfantasy

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Trying to keep my nose to the grindstone despite the fuckery going on in DC. I have no words for how idiotic and irresponsible our leadership has become. #illustration #stefanpoag #ghosts #osrrpg #osrart #goodmangames #dccrpg #penandink #weirdfantasy #fucktrump #monsters #theundead

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stefan poag @stefanpoag.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

We've got Elon telling us that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be taken away from us but they also want to use tax dollars to create a "crypto reserve" which (sarcasm) does not sound like a scam at all. Слава Україні! #stefanpoag #illustration #monster #osrrpg #osrart #dagon

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